some say you and the u.s. rebuffed the offer. would it have been better off if the u.s. had pursued the military campaign if afghanistan in the way that president obama is pursuing the action in libya? with nato as the command and control structure? >> i think that's nonsensical partisan politics. the coalition in libya is the smallest one in history. we had over 90 countries in the global war on terror. dozens of countries involved in afghanistan. dozens of countries involved in iraq. and still, the democrats were alleging it was president bush was there unilaterally. it's nonsense. now, going -- the first thing you have to do is recognize that, as i talk about in my book, the mission has to determine the coalition. the coalition ought not determine the mission. now, that being said, if you determine what your mission is and then you decide, as we did, with respect to afghanistan, that you put together a coalition that fits that mission, that agrees with the mission, that won't back out of that mission, then you have a sufficient seriousness of purpose that you have a c